What makes a pizza a New York-style pizza? Is it the thin crust? The long slices? The way you fold it in half to eat it?

According to New York Pizza Depot's Dominic Telemaco, it's all of the above, and more.

When Telemaco opened NYPD with his brother Mauro in 1997, New York pizza was already in his blood. Originally from Italy, Dominic and the Tememaco family moved here from New York, where they had been running a pizza restaurant.

The brothers brought their Italian-New York sensibility, their family recipes (and their mom) and an intense work ethic to Ann Arbor, took over the space at 605 E. William St. and made it their own.

NYPD serves pastas, salads, calzones and even deep dish pizzas, but classic New York-style pizza is clearly the restaurant's forte. Whether you're buying it by the slice or by the pie, Telemaco will tell you that there's just one way to eat it.

"The proper way to hold a New York style pizza is to fold it, hold the tip, and mangia!"